Author: Horace G Hutchinson
Title: Portraits of the Eighties
Description: London, T Fisher Unwin, 1920. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this collection of biographies from the late nineteenth century by Horace G Hutchinson. The first edition of this work. A scarce volume. G. Horace Hutchinson's tributes to some of the most prominent figures of the 1880s in the United Kingdom. Containing biographies of G. W. E. Russell, W. E. Gladstone, Charles Stewart Parnell, Joseph Chamberlain, General Gordon, Lord Wolseley and Lord Roberts, Professor Huxley and the evolutionists, and Sir John Lubbock among many others. Illustrated with twenty-eight portraits. Collated, complete. Hutchinson was an English amateur gofer and prolific author of books on golfing and other sports. This volume provides an insight into the protagonists of late nineteenth century Britain.Featuring Lionellus Ford's bookplate to front pastedown; Francis S. H. Bryant's to recto front free endpaper; and Egerton Parker's to verso front free endpaper. Rebound in half diced calf binding over cloth covered boards, with titles in gilt to spine, gilt tooling to spine, gilt to top edge. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting scattered to occasional leaf, pages remain otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .
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Title: Portraits of the Eighties
Description: London, T Fisher Unwin, 1920. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this collection of biographies from the late nineteenth century by Horace G Hutchinson. The first edition of this work. A scarce volume. G. Horace Hutchinson's tributes to some of the most prominent figures of the 1880s in the United Kingdom. Containing biographies of G. W. E. Russell, W. E. Gladstone, Charles Stewart Parnell, Joseph Chamberlain, General Gordon, Lord Wolseley and Lord Roberts, Professor Huxley and the evolutionists, and Sir John Lubbock among many others. Illustrated with twenty-eight portraits. Collated, complete. Hutchinson was an English amateur gofer and prolific author of books on golfing and other sports. This volume provides an insight into the protagonists of late nineteenth century Britain.Featuring Lionellus Ford's bookplate to front pastedown; Francis S. H. Bryant's to recto front free endpaper; and Egerton Parker's to verso front free endpaper. Rebound in half diced calf binding over cloth covered boards, with titles in gilt to spine, gilt tooling to spine, gilt to top edge. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting scattered to occasional leaf, pages remain otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: horace g hutchinson biographies intellectual life first editions biographies Not Stated
Price: GBP 120.00 = appr. US$ 171.36 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 845A63
- Book number: 845A63
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